I'm trying to get detailed data on languages spoken at home to do an LEP study. I'm able to get the data by PUMA; however, my city is lumped in with two other cities, with no way to segregate them.
Is there some other way to do this? We're on the hook for non-English language support but can't get granular-enough data to figure out which languages we have to service. Thanks in advance.
For city (sumlevel 160) and tracts (sum level 140), have you looked at table C16001 ? There're nine non-English languages listed
Grid View: Table C16001 - Census ReporterWhy just nine languages?
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Hi,
ACS Table B16002 provides detailed language data at the household level.
Data is available for municipalities and Census Tracts. You may need to isolate the tracts in your city and then aggregate them…
Perhaps whoever wrote the law should have checked what's actually available in the ACS before the law was passed.
I get difficult-to-answer questions like this a lot.
There is a special file that is created every 5 years. and is in the Census Redistricting Office that uses 74 Language Minority Groups to compute the percent of LEP individuals most particularly LEP individuals who are Citizens of Voting Age by State, County and Minor Civil Division, this matched Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act. There is a table that does LEP of all sorts by Spanish and Other Languages, that follows the typical summary levels. I think it is B1608. It includes Citizens and non-citizens. The p;roblems with this are mainfold. With a reule like AB 1608, is their an age range for LEP. Households are often used for other things, because one can expect those in ahousehold to care for one another. But this is a real problem. The VRA Section 203 file is created and modelled.
Andy Beveridge